Motion

Definition: Motion

Motion

Noun

1. A natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something.

2. The use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals.

3. A change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility".

4. A state of change; "they were in a state of steady motion".

5. A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote; "he made a motion to adjourn"; "she called for the question".

6. The act of changing your location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path".

7. An optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement".

Verb

1. Show, express or direct through movement; "He gestured his desire to leave".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "motion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Motion \Mo"tion\, noun. [French, from Latin motio, from movere, motum, to move. See Move.]. (references)

Aerospace

General

Industry

Law

Literature

Medicine

Politics & International Affaires

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Motion

Idea

Subject, subject matter; matter, theme, gr/noemata/gr, topic, what it is about, thesis, text, business, affair, matter in hand, argument; motion, resolution; head, chapter; case, point; proposition, theorem; field of inquiry; moot point, problem; (question).

Offer

Noun: offer, proffer, presentation, tender, bid, overture; proposal, proposition; motion, invitation; candidature; offering; (gift).

Plan

Noun: plan, scheme, design, project; proposal, proposition, suggestion; resolution, motion; precaution; (provision); deep-laid plan; (premeditated);

Crosswords: Motion

French (motion, resolution), Swedish (exercise, motion).

Try and follow me because I'm going to be moving in a circular motion. So if you pay attention, there will be a point (Swimming With Sharks; writing credit: George Huang)

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion! (Donnie Darko; writing credit: Richard Kelly)

I don't make major motion pictures, I make crap (Ed Wood; writing credit: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.)

I would like to say, for the record, that I am in favor of using more American Indians and other minorities in motion pictures, I am against polluting the oceans of the world, I am for every nationality having its own homeland, I am against whacking baby seals on the head, and I am for saving the whales (The 51st Annual Academy Awards; writing credit: Buz Kohan)

We're doing a goddamn Paramount motion picture, and we can't put on fog and lights at the same time (Making of 'Jackass: The Movie'; writing credit: Danny Miller)

Slow motion riders fly the colors of the day (Saturday In The Park; performing artist: Chicago)

You can ponder perpetual motion, fix your mind on a crystal day, (UP AROUND THE BEND; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

He got the action, he got the motion (Walk Of Life; performing artist: Dire Straits)

It’s centrifugal motion ("This Kiss"; performing artist: Faith Hill)

My body starts a motion and I start to twist (Flipper Twist; performing artist: Flipper)

A vibration is a motion that can't make up its mind which way it wants to go. (references; author: unknown)

Bellydance! Magical Motion (1998)

Waste Motion (1974)

Perpetual Motion Machine (1973)

Animals in Motion (1968)

Man In Motion (1967)

St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion) (performing artist: John Parr)

ST.ELMO'S FIRE (MAN IN MOTION)  (performing artist: John Parr )

Poetry In Motion (performing artist: Johnny Tillotson)

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References

• Research In Motion Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Motion Media PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Computer Motion, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• World Wide Motion Pictures Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Motion Pictures: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Selected Themes from the Motion Picture Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: French Horn (Instrumental Series) (reference)

• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies of Visual Motion Processing in the Human Brain (Acta Biomedical Lovaniensia, 226) (reference)

• Rick Hansen : Man in Motion (reference)

• Elementary Treatment of the Theory of Spinning Tops and Gyroscopic Motion (reference)

• Kinesics and Context: Essays on Body Motion Communication (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Eiga Terebi Gijutsu = Motion Picture & Tv Engineering (reference)

• Motion (reference)

• Motion Control (reference)

• Motion Picture Investor (reference)

• Motion Picture Rating Directory (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Star Trek - The Motion Picture (The Director's Edition) (reference)

• Bellydance! Magical Motion (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hearts in Atlantis: Original Motion Picture Score [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Conan The Barbarian: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• So I Married An Axe Murderer: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• The Legend of Bagger Vance: Music from the Motion Picture (2000 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Abandon (Music from the Motion Picture) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• MOTION SYSTEMS Nylon Camcorder/SLR Camera Bag (HKCV100-BLK) (reference)

• Motion Systems Small Digital Camera Case (DDT15-BLK) (reference)

• Scooby-Doo: The Motion Picture (reference)

• Motion Small Camera Case - Gray/Black (reference)

• ACAD Motion Pack (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Music in Motion Developmental Mobile with Remote (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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"Kugel auf Gummituch" (movie) by Rainer Wonisch. Use the Scrollbar to vary A, while watching general relativity in motion.

Project Mercury: AWT Gimbaling Rig Showing Motion. Credit: NASA.

A fine example of glacial plucking showing direction of glacial ice motion from left to right in the image. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Horizontal cloud is ahead of tornado motion while near vertical cloud is behind. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Figure 44. A buoy with a drogue used by the CHALLENGER Expedition in the Gulf Stream for current studies in 1873. The drogue acts like an underwater sail and is pushed by the current. The buoy allows visual tracking of the motion of the drogue. It was first tested off Bermuda in in 1873 in separate tests at 50 fathoms, 100 fathoms, and 600 fathoms. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 55. Burt's nipper, invented by Peter Burt, a British ship builder, in 1818. It was used to keep the sounding line vertical in spite of the motion of the ship. It was used by the British Admiralty along with a device of the same type designed by Massey. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 50. Berget double deviation refractometer, developed and devised by the Frenchman Alphonse Berget, professor at the Oceanographic Institute. From about 1911 onward, he was concerned with developing an instrument to measure the density of a liquid at sea by a method that would not be affected by the ship's motion. He described the pictured instrument in 1925. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The forward magazines of USS Arizona (BB-39) explode after she was hit by a Japanese bomb, Dec. 7, 1941. Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board USS Solace (AH-5). (Navy archive photo).

The sensing unit that technician Jeff Thomas is attaching records motion and other data so scientists can determine how much time this steer spends grazing each day. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Schematic presentation of the system DNA + salt + counterions + PEG at an equilibrium across a semipermeable membrane. The membrane is impermeable to PEG and DNA. There is however no obstruction to the motion of small ions (Picture courtesy H.H. Strey, NIH). Credit: NICHD.

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No cause has been shown, and the present motion is for a mandamus. (reference)

Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion. (reference)

The Governing Body may adopt the same procedure either of its own motion or on receipt of a complaint from a Delegate to the Conference. (reference)

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He had turned away, and the horses were in motion.

Suppose we apply the theory to horizontal motion.

She mended her old, wornout corsets with bits of calico which were torn by the slightest motion.

His fist splashed into the large face, and in the same motion he was away, dodging down the line of tents

The first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterwards the motion was easy enough

It is continually receiving new life and motion from above

Taste your legs, sir; put them to motion.

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Health

Motion of the fluid tells us if we are moving. (references)

Their size and motion may be frightening at first. (references)

Nor does anyone know exactly what sets the disease in motion. (references)

Business

This ensures smooth and noiseless motion of the glass and minimum power absorption. (references)

China's motion was passed by the Commission, and there was no debate on the China human rights resolution. (references)

As in previous years, the Chinese delegation introduced a preemptive motion to take no action on the resolution. (references)

Civil Liberties

Barbados

At year's end, the motion had not yet been heard, and all parties remained free on bail. (references)

Guatemala

On September 5, the Archbishop's Human Rights Office filed a motion against the Interior Minister for the August appointment of Carlos Rafael Soto as Director of the National Printing Office on the grounds that the law prevents the appointment to public office of someone against whom charges are pending. (references)

Iceland

The law bans the production, exhibition, distribution, or sale of "violent" movies, which "strive to show mistreatment or the brutal killing of men or animals." A six-member Motion Picture Review Committee, appointed by the Minister of Education and Culture, reviews all movies before they are shown and rates their suitability for children. (references)

Economic History

Italy

There are some 10,000 motion picture theaters in Italy and many regularly show advertising. (references)

Bangladesh

Pro-government candidates won a majority of the posts, setting in motion the President's ambitious decentralization program. (references)

Madagascar

For its part, the National Assembly can pass a motion of censure and require the Prime Minister and council of ministers to step down. (references)

Human Rights

Guyana

By year's end, the motion had not been placed on Parliament's agenda. (references)

Armenia

After a brief investigation of the claims, the motion was denied by the Prosecutor General's office. (references)

Armenia

Both petitioners agreed to file a motion to the Procurator General's office; however, one of them later refused to proceed with his case. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

In August 1999, the Government, in identical motions passed by both Houses of the Federal Parliament, expressed public regret for past mistreatment of the Aboriginal minority; however, the government-sponsored motion of reconciliation was criticized by many Aboriginal leaders as not going far enough. (references)

Minorities

Zimbabwe

The President threatened to arrest white M.P.'s for drafting the impeachment motion. (references)

Political Economy

SPAIN

Spain has a low incidence of motion picture, i.e. video, and audiocassette piracy. (references)

Political Rights

Zimbabwe

In October 2000, the MDC brought a motion to Parliament to impeach President Mugabe for violating the Constitution and for gross misconduct. (references)

Hong Kong

In June 2000 when the Legislative Council passed a no-confidence motion against two senior housing officials, the more senior of the two resigned. (references)

Zimbabwe

In November 2000, the Speaker of Parliament appointed a special committee composed of eight ZANU-PF members and four MDC members to consider the charges outlined in the motion. (references)

Trade

Greece

Greek film production is subsidized by a 12 percent admissions tax on all motion pictures. (references)

Worker Rights

Bahamas

The Industrial Relations Act requires that, before a strike begins, a simple majority of a union's membership must vote in favor of a motion to strike. (references)

Singapore

Children may not work on commercial vessels, with any machinery in motion, on live electrical apparatus lacking effective insulation, or in any underground job. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Brother of motion

Motion

Expressions using "motion": Accelerated motion ♦ access motion time ♦ an even motion ♦ Angular motion ♦ Apex of the earth's motion ♦ apparent motion ♦ appeal motion ♦ axial motion ♦ back and forth motion ♦ backward and forward motion ♦ backward motion ♦ bank motion ♦ be in motion ♦ Brownian motion ♦ Brownian motion process ♦ carry the motion ♦ censure motion ♦ center of motion ♦ centre of motion ♦ Cervical motion ♦ Compound motion ♦ continuous path control of motion ♦ Contrary motion ♦ Differential motion ♦ direction of motion ♦ Diurnal motion of a heavenly body ♦ Diurnal motion of the earth ♦ eddy motion ♦ extend motion ♦ fast motion ♦ feed motion ♦ feed motion directed to the interior ♦ feed motion towards the interior ♦ first law of motion ♦ forward motion ♦ forward motion vector ♦ full motion video ♦ give notice of motion ♦ harmonic motion ♦ helical motion ♦ Hook motion ♦ image motion compensation ♦ in motion ♦ in slow motion ♦ irregular motion ♦ keep in motion ♦ Kepler's law of planetary motion ♦ law of motion ♦ Laws of motion ♦ Link motion ♦ Lost motion ♦ main motion ♦ make a motion ♦ motion block ♦ motion cartoon ♦ motion compensation ♦ motion economy ♦ motion from ♦ motion in favor of ♦ motion in favour of ♦ motion JPEG ♦ motion of a pendulum ♦ motion of censure ♦ motion of the hand ♦ motion parallax ♦ Motion Perception ♦ motion picture ♦ motion Picture Experts Group ♦ motion picture film ♦ motion picture producer ♦ motion pictures ♦ motion sickness ♦ motion sickness incidence ♦ motion smb. away ♦ motion space ♦ motion study ♦ motion time analysis ♦ motion to do ♦ motion to smb. to do smth. ♦ motion way ♦ Newton's first law of motion ♦ newtons law of motion ♦ Newton's law of motion ♦ Newton's second law of motion ♦ Newton's third law of motion ♦ notice of motion ♦ notice of originating motion ♦ notices of motion ♦ oblique motion ♦ of mere motion ♦ on the motion of ♦ onward motion ♦ orbital motion ♦ Paracentric motion ♦ parallel motion ♦ perpetual motion ♦ perpetual motion machine ♦ positive motion ♦ predetermined motion time system ♦ principal motion ♦ proper motion. Additional references.

Beginning with "motion": motion-control, motion-perception, motion-picture, motion-picture camera, motion-picture fan, motion-picture film, motion-picture photography, motion-pictures, motion-sickness, motion-work.

Ending with "motion": full-motion, Loco-motion, slow-motion, time-and-motion.

Containing "motion": full-motion video, quick-motion camera, slow-motion film, time-and-motion study, time-motion study.

Afrikaans

rolprent (film, motion picture, movie), prent (film, motion picture, movie), film (film, motion picture, movie). (various references)

Albanian

mocion, marionetë, zbrazje (defecation, depletion, discharge, dumping, emptying, evacuation, pour), veprim (act, action, activity, agency, deed, doing, engagement, fact, move, movement, operation, play, procedure, proceeding, reaction, step, transaction, turn), shkresë (request, requisition), propozim (call, nomination, offer, offering, proposal, proposition, suggestion, tender), lëvizje (bustling, buzz, drift, flow, locomotion, move, movement, removal, shifting, stir, traffic, transfer), interpelancë (request), gjest (face, gesture, movement, sign), ecje (footing, gait, going, movement, pace, run, step, tread, walk, walking), e ecur (step, walk), bëj shenjë (make notes, sign). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مذكرة (aide-memoire, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minutes, note, notebook, pocket book, reminder, warrant), ‏ومأ إلى, ‏حركة (activity, business, dash, drift, move, movement, stir), ‏تغير في طبقة الصوت, ‏تغوط (defecate, defecation, dejection, evacuate, evacuation, movement, pass, pass water, pooh), ‏سير (course, file, foot, going, impel, march, pan, pass, procession, progress, propel, running, thong, walk), ‏إقتراح (feeler, instance, offer, offering, proposal, proposition, suggestion, vote), ‏إشارة (allusion, cue, denotation, forerunner, gesture, hint, index, indication, innuendo, mark, pitch, prognostic, reference, sign, signal, tip off), ‏أشار (advert, allude, beckon, beckon in, connote, denote, designate, indicate, mark, mark out, mention, point, point at, point out, read, record, refer, reference, show, sign, signalize, suggest), ‏براز (dejecta, excrement, faeces, stool). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ходене по голяма нужда (movement, passage), ход (action, bat, course, current, foot, gait, going, lapse, move, movement, operation, pace, passage, passing, play, ploy, process, race, rate, run, running, stream, swing, tenor, tide, track, train, tread, twist, walk, way), воля (purpose, volition, will, willpower), намерение (aim, aiming, animus, design, drift, intent, intention, notion, object, plan, purpose, scope, thought, view), механизъм (action, assembly, contrivance, device, gear, machine, machinery, mechanism, movement, works), махам (clean off, flap, get away, lash, pick, pull off, remove, rip away, switch, take away, wag, waggle), жестикулация (gesticulation), жест (gesture), предложение (bid, counsel, offer, proffer, proposal), правя знак (sign), подбуда (impulse, incentive, inducement, inspiration, motive, persuasive, prod, prompting, sanction, spring, spur, stimulus), импулс (impulse, inspiration, momentum, pulse, signal, urge), движение (course, go, impulsion, locomotion, move, movement, propulsion, race, stir, way, working), давам знак (hitch, sign). (various references)

Chinese 

議案 (proposal), 行动 (Act, ACT++, Acted, Acting, ACTS, Back-acting, Motioned, Motioning, moved, Moving, Proceeding, proceedings), 提案 (proposal), 動議 (proposal), 動力 (force, power, propulsion), 動作 (action, movement). (various references)

Czech

pohyb (exercise, gesture, locomotion, move, movement, snap it up, stir, travel), návrh (design, draft, drawing, minute, offer, proposal, suggestion), gesto (gesture), chod (action, course, dish, gait, going, passing, run). (various references)

Danish

maskintur, forslag på dagsorden, bevaegelse (movement), bevægelse (movement). (various references)

Dutch

motie (resolution), resolutie (resolution). (various references)

Esperanto

rezolucio (resolution). (various references)

Faeroese

avgerð (resolution). (various references)

Farsi 

پیشنهادکردن (Advance, Bid, Move, Offer, Proffer, Propose, Purpose, Submit, Suggest), پیشنهاد (Bid, Offer, Plea, Proffer, Proposal, Purpose, Tender), حرکت (Behavior, Demeanour, Departure, Gesture, Locomotion, Move, Movement, Poke, Progress, Stir, Stroke), تکان (Convulsion, Hustle, Jar, Jerk, Jolt, Jostle, Move, Movement, Rock, Shake, Shock, Stroke, Tremor, Wag), طرح دادن , جنبش (Braid, Bustle, Cause, Commotion, Flicker, Jar, Jiggle, Locomotion, Move, Movement, Rock, Stir, Tremor, Vibration), جنب وجوش (Milling), اشاره کردن (Abode, Allude, Hint, Imply, Insinuate, Mention, Nudge, Sign). (various references)

Finnish

liike (business, concern, firm, movement, shop). (various references)

French

motion, résolution, mouvement (move, movement). (various references)

German

bewegung (affection, agitation, emotion, evolution, exercise, gesture, move, movement, pass, progress, stir), antrag (annex, application, application form, claim, offer, overture, petition, presentation, proposal, proposition, request, tender). (various references)

Greek 

κίνηση (actuation, ambulation, motivation, move, movement, moving, reflex, turnover), πρόταση (clause, offer, overture, premise, proposal, proposition, second, sentence, suggestion). (various references)

Hawaiian

film (film, motion picture, movie). (various references)<